6:51 PM,
Jan. 23, 2013

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A Yonkers pizza deliveryman has been arrested in the 2004 death of a Bronx woman whose car was hit by a 10-pound slab of asphalt hurled from an overpass onto the Sprain Brook Parkway.

Alberto Plasencia, 26, of 611 Bronx River Road, was arrested by the Yonkers Cold Case Squad Tuesday and charged with second-degree murder in the death of of 48-year-old Marie McSweeney. He was 17 at the time of the incident.

"I feel like our prayers have been heard," said Victoria Nikou, 59, McSweeney's cousin, told The Journal News Wednesday after police informed her that Plasencia had been charged in the death. ...